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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This is completely beside the point, but it feels like I have been seeing this error more and more these days. I was actually just thinking about this yesterday with how much more frequently I see it tolerated, and I am wondering: is this a phrase that is entering our vernacular for good? Will my grandkids be writing about "all that could of been" in school without repercussions? What is happening to my world?
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I blame Cormac McCarthy’s proofreader and editor.
It’s one thing in an online setting, which is dismaying, but entirely something that in a proofread and published book.